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The third modern British record of Brachymeria tibialis (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) reared from Zygaena filipendulae (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)
We wish to place on record the rearing of a single female specimen of Brachymeria tibialis (Walker) on 13 July 2009 from a cocoon of Zygaena filipendulae (L.) collected on 5 June 2009 by one of us (RC) at Denbies Landbarn, Surrey, TQ 135499, a National Trust chalk downland site....Shaw, Mark R ; Comont, R ; McCracken, M ; Hesketh, H ; Roy, H …
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West Pans Pottery Ceramic Resource Disk 2
The West Pans ceramic material, listed described and photographed on the enclosed disk has been assigned to the National Museums of Scotland and was catalogued using accession numbers (MES1.1 to 1132). The majority of the ceramic material was recovered during a small rescue excavation funded by Historic Scotland and the...Haggarty, George
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Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined
A log-coffin excavated in the early nineteenth century proved to be well enough preserved in the early twenty-first century for the full armoury of modern scientific investigation to give its occupants and contents new identity, new origins and a new date. In many ways the interpretation is much the same... -
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Excavation at Aguas Buenas, Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, of a gunpowder magazine and the supposed campsite of Alexander Selkirk, together with an account of early navigational dividers
Excavations were undertaken of a ruined building at Aguas Buenas, identified as an 18th-century Spanish gunpowder magazine. Evidence was also found for the campsite of an early European occupant of the island. A case is made that this was Alexander Selkirk, a castaway here from 1704 to 1709. Selkirk was...Takahashi, Daisuke ; Caldwell, David H ; Caceres, Ivan ; Calderon, Mauricio ; Morrison-Low, A D …
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Oldest known pantherine skull and evolution of the tiger
The tiger is one of the most iconic extant animals, and its origin and evolution have been intensely debated. Fossils attributable to extant pantherine species-lineages are less than 2 MYA and the earliest tiger fossils are from the Calabrian, Lower Pleistocene. Molecular studies predict a much younger age for the...Mazák, J H ; Christiansen, P ; Kitchener, Andrew C
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An Early Bronze Age 'dagger grave' from Rameldry Farm, near Kingskettle, Fife
In February 2000, ploughing disturbed the capstone of a cist, located on the side of a prominent knowe at Rameldry Farm, near Kingskettle in central Fife. Excavation by Headland Archaeology Ltd on behalf of Historic Scotland revealed a short cist which contained the crouched inhumation of a man aged 40-50,...Baker, L ; Sheridan, J A ; Cowie, Trevor
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Towards a fuller, more nuanced narrative of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain 2500-1500 BC
This contribution considers some of the many recent advances in our understanding of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Britain and uses these to highlight the weak points in our current state of knowledge. Focusing mainly on the period 2500–1500 BC, it concentrates on issues of chronology, human movement, the role of...Sheridan, J A